All Charles Darwin Quotes
- It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. Advisable
- Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Die
- Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. Animal
- Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. All
- We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. Concerned
- To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search… Advancement
- we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps Admitting
- Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and… Cataclysms
- As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so… Acts
- Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Good
- We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must… Advanced
- Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. Advance
- The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably… Character
- If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Beauty
- It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Business
- The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the… Argument
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Begets
- I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have… Advisable
- I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one… Any
- In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. Adapting